Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Pixtral Large
Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral Large in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 42.1 to 32.9.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Pixtral Large leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Pixtral Large?
Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Pixtral Large share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.